Measurement and characterization of RF nonuniformity over the heart at 3T using body coil transmission

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 643-648

  Sung, Kyunghyun ^a,b   Nayak, Krishna S ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; High field MRI; Prescan calibration; RF nonuniformity; Saturated double angle method

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COIL TRANSMISSION; BREATH HOLDING; CALIBRATION; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUNTEER;

HEART; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 40449084455     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21253     Document Type: Article

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